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Chapter 31: Lena at the Limit

作者: Sire Bliss
last update 公開日: 2026-04-09 23:24:55

~ Lena POV ~

It had been a hard week even before Thursday.

The tabloid situation had flared again, a new piece, sharper than the previous ones, this time with photographs from the Morrison Group dinner that had clearly been taken from inside the room. Patricia had called me at eight in the morning to say the firm was receiving press enquiries and that she needed me to manage my visibility more aggressively. I’d said yes and managed it and handled it with the focused efficiency of someone who ha
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